The Human Rights Council is mandated to prevent gross human rights violations, and to secure accountability when those happen. The Council and its mechanisms, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) play a central role in the prevention agenda as well as in accountability, through COIs, Special Procedures, and international, impartial independent mechanisms. URG seeks to promote and strengthen the UN’s human rights pillar preventative capacity and bring scrutiny to the question of whether UN mechanisms set up to secure accountability are able to fulfil this mandate.
TRANSFORMING UNIVERSAL RIGHTS INTO LOCAL REALITY
Transforming universal norms into local reality
Prevention, accountability, and justice
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